WordCamp (was Re: [uf-discuss] Re: hCard and vCard)

[Sebastian Küpers]

I would love to come, but Germany is to far away - BUT:

I am developing a wordpress plugin for microformats atm in cooperation
with the R&D department of the company I am working for.

so I am absoluty interested in knowing what's going on there and with
which ideas you'll come up there?!

our plugin (maybe called "MicroGator") will be able to aggregate
hCards(+XFN), hCalendars, xFolk and hReviews in the sidebar or as a
single page. (you can set a few parameters for display, updating,
maybe filters and so on)

You just have to specify the URL's of your microformats sources and
you can check for each URL if you wanna aggragate all or only specific
microformats.

we're thinking about to support the URI microformat to make our parser
more powerfull - but the specification of URI support is atm maybay
not far enough ;)

So - it would be wonderfull, if you can have in mind, that somebody
out there in germany is doing something in this direction allready :))

Of course it will be open source and for free! As soon it makes sense,
we will start publishing informations about it.

So thanks! I am a little bit envious, that I can't be there :(

Best regards,
Sebastian

On 8/3/06, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I will be attending WordCamp this weekend:
>
>  http://upcoming.org/event/90382/
>
> Who else on the list will be going?
>
> Perhaps we can brainstorm about what microformats support we can to add to
> WordPress in a day.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
>
>
> On 8/3/06 9:26 AM, "Chris Messina" <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > No reason that can't be put into WP core. In fact, I'd recommend
> > anyone in or near the Bay Area (or remote via IRC) to participate in
> > this weekend's WordCamp (wordcamp.org).
> >
> > All the lead devs will be in one place as well as a large contingent
> > of the community and if there were ever a group of folks to present a
> > unified message about the usefulness of the further adoption of
> > microformats, it'd be these kats.
> >
> > For my part, I'll be in Boston doing my best to convince the
> > Wikimaniacs of the power and importance of microformats. ;)
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On 8/3/06, Pete Prodoehl <raster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ben Buchanan wrote:
> >>>> For example (and I've done this myself on numerous
> >>>> occasions) "come and hear <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">Ben
> >>>> Barren</span></span> speak about..." is really not contact
> >>>> information, but this is a very commonly cited example of how one
> >>>> might use hCard (for example, for conference speakers).
> >>>
> >>> Hmm, well the resulting vCard wouldn't actually be especially useful
> >>> :) If it at least associated the person with a URL it would create a
> >>> useful chunk of information. But I guess it does change it from "bit
> >>> of text" to "someone's name" so.... yeah. But it is awfully borderline
> >>> :)
> >>
> >> This is what I use in my WordPress site for the comments:
> >>
> >> <cite class="vcard">Comment by
> >> <a href="http://redmonk.net" rel="external" class="url">
> >> <span class="fn">Steve Ivy</span></a> on
> >> <a href="#comment-2321">Jul 30, 2006 9:46 pm</a></cite>
> >>
> >> Which is probably just a step up from the above example, as it has a URL. :)
> >>
> >> I'd be nice to see this supported in WP out of the box, eh?
> >>
> >> Pete
> >>
> >>
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